Timeline for Why do questions get closed?
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| Oct 5, 2012 at 23:07 | comment | added | slhck Mod | @ChrisW.Rea > Did policy change in those 3 years? – Yes, for most of these, it did. For example, there are still plenty of questions that are polling for what software people use from the early days of Super User in 2009. They might have just slipped under the radar and are now closed so as not to stick around as examples of what questions to ask. Eventually they'll be deleted. | |
| Oct 5, 2012 at 16:56 | comment | added | rtf | @ChrisW.Rea This is what lead me to believe closing has nothing to do with deleting. Four out of those seven were closed over a year ago, but I get the feeling if I flagged for deletion it would be rejected. ;) I'm not trying to be argumentative, I just find it odd that many many closed questions are seeing frequent use, yet are supposedly on the verge of deletion? | |
| Oct 5, 2012 at 16:48 | comment | added | Chris W. Rea | Re: "Closing happens when" ... drilling in on the "when": What prompts a moderator close a three-year-old question that had been existing happily all that time and getting thousands of page views for the site? Did policy change in those 3 years or it just took that long to get noticed as "something off"? | |
| Oct 5, 2012 at 16:33 | comment | added | random Mod | Yes, depending on if no one after reading this question wants to keep them around | |
| Oct 5, 2012 at 16:31 | comment | added | rtf | So will the questions I listed eventually be deleted? | |
| Oct 5, 2012 at 16:25 | history | answered | randomMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |